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A common concept of the sci-fi and fantasy genres (and especially games of those genres) is the notion of not an organization, not a clan, not a city, but an entire race of bad guys who brag about howEvil they are.

Note that the race can also be Lawful Evil or Neutral Evil. In fact, 99% of the time, it will be a race that simply is evil to the core, with some individual differences in their stances on Order Versus Chaos. The orcs in The Lord of the Rings are a perfect example: they are arguably a Lawful Evil race overall, even if individual members are not. Just because there's an army of Lawful Good humans, doesn't mean that the evil army that opposes them can't also be lawful. It must be said that merely showing an evil, conquering army is not enough to prove this trope, so long as a doubt that everyone of the same nationality or race approves remains. They are part of the same group after all, of course they would share the same beliefs. Nor does showing a few evil members of a species proves that this species qualifies. It must be beyond the shadow of a doubt, that this holds true for every single individual, and in the well-done cases even justified. Also a variation playing with this trope is of creatures having basically the same background, but some choosing evil and transforming into something different.

One must consider that morality exists due to the fact that humans are social animals. Parents care for their offspring so they can grow up strong and so they can teach them lessons that they would otherwise have to work out for themselves. A tribe of hunter/gatherers pools the food it gathers and splits it so those that don't get much one day due to bad luck will be in good condition to get some tomorrow. Farmers raise crops and feed an blacksmith who forges tools so said farmers can better till the land. Society is built on said interactions, but all of which is predicated on interactions going smoothly and being unlikely to end in one side murdering the other for momentary gain or a larf. In that case the rational thing to do is to avoid others of your kind like a plague.

When a fictional character (whether human or a member of another fictional race) wrongly and unreasonably believes that a fictional race in their world is this trope, it's a case of Fantastic Racism. A member of a fictional race holding the same unjustified and false belief about humans would likewise be Fantastic Racism.

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Most of the Saiyans are barbaric, planet destroying bullies known, among other things, for their love of fighting. The known exceptions are Goku (who was raised as an Earthling and became mellow after hitting his head), his and Vegeta's children (who had human ancestry), Goku's mother Gine (who was born with a soft heart, and a soft retcon indicated Goku inherited her personality), and Vegeta's younger brother Tarble. The crux of it is that while gentler Saiyans did exist, they were the minority and were either cast out or on the lower rungs of their society.

Goku, the one consistently heroic Saiyan, even though generally peaceful and even a protector, was Flanderized as The Cape in the anime adaptations, especially the movies. This was opposed to his original manga personality of someone who, though still moderatley heroic, was mostly driven by a selfish desire for a good fight at the end of the day. This was walked back in Super, where the change in personality was jarring to many fans who weren't familiar with the manga.

Vegeta himself, the only other full-blooded Saiyan to survive the series, took years of living among humans to even slightly mellow out. While his overwhelming sense of pride would remain intact, years of living on Earth and becoming a family man made his eventual HeelFace Turn, and in fact became even more family oriented than Goku. This is often overlooked by fans, which Akira Toriyama parodied in Neko Majin Z with the character of Onio.

Goku's father Bardock was just as much of a murderous warrior as the rest of the Saiyans, but he still fell in love with Gine and her gentle personality, and fathered two sons with her. This was unusual for Saiyans, who don't typically operate as a family, usually seeing their mates and children more as friends who can take care of themselves. Bardock also had a brief stint as a heroic Saiyan when he was given precognitive powers and learned that the Saiyans' employer Freeza was planning on destroying their planet. Bardock didn't make a HeelFace Turn, but he made a stand against Freeza to protect what he valued, even in the face of a hopeless fight.

Dragon Ball Super subverts this with Universe 6, which exists parallel to Universe 7, home to the mainline Dragon Ball series. U6 Saiyans are described as a race of noble warriors who sometimes take jobs to defeat villains and hunt down criminals. Rather than being a case of For Want of a Nail, it's implied that this is just how Universe 6's Saiyans are; they still have their homeworld, Planet Sadala, which in Universe 7 was destroyed by internal conflict.

Also subverted in the same story with Freeza's species. Frost is to be a kind person who helps people in need and is a hero in U6. This is in fact a Double Subversion, as Frost really is a genocidal monster like all the rest of them. Vegeta even says they shouldn't have expected anything else from Frieza's race.

In D.Gray-Man the akumas are specifically created by the earl to be this. They are actually supposed to be more weapons than characters. The level 1 and 3 play this completely straight but the level 2 have shown to be able to develop other interactions with humans though their killing urge will eventually come back. Level 4 are an exagerated examples as they are sadistic bastards whose only defining trait is killing humans. Oh..and they also kill their own allies.

Played utterly straight with trolls and other monsters (it is based on D&D, after all).

It is justified in Mazinger Z: The mooks are zombies revived thanks to cybernetic implants by the Big Bad Dr. Hell. Since he mechanized their brains, wiped their minds out to erase any memory of their former lives and any shred of independent thought and programmed them to be absolutely and unquestionably loyal and obedient, they have no choice other than being Always Chaotic Evil.

Great Mazinger: The Mycenae play with this trope. The Warrior Monsters are Humongous Mecha with the head of a Mycenae soldier implanted in the giant mechanical body. Since the soldiers are indoctrinated to attack and wipe out anything non-related to the Mycenae civilization, the trope is justified. On the other hand, the commanders of the army display different personalities and honorable qualities (specially Ankoku Daishogun), and though they are not portrayed as good, neither are they portrayed as proud of being evil, but a proud race of warriors who want to return to the surface world after being forced to live underground for millennia.

UFO Robo Grendizer: At the beginning it looks like the trope is being played straight, but it is finally averted. Several of the Vegans are decent people and many of them are given redeeming qualities.

Combattler V: For a while it seemed the trope was being played straight, but was ultimately averted. The Campbellians attacking Earth were not representative of the entire race, but a rebel fraction led by leaders constantly indoctrinating their troops into believing it is HUMANS who are Always Chaotic Evil. The greater part of the Campbellians were not presented as evil or harbouring ill will towards humans, and actually at the end Deus, the Campbellians' true leader, came to Earth to stop Big Bad Empress Janera personally, and vowed he would help to rebuild what Janera destroyed on Earth.

Ditto for the mazoku from Violinist of Hameln. There actually are two exceptions, but the rest feel that their calling is to torment humanity For the Evulz (Sure, their whole race exists through magical power gained by consuming human blood and souls, but regular mazoku cannot extract it, so evulz still is the driving reason for their atrocities).

Subverted in Chrono Crusade (although differently, depending on which version you're watching). In the manga, this seems to be the case at first (with Chrono being the only exception), but it turns out that the Sinners are more complex than that, and among other demons most of them are simply following orders in a corrupt culture that can't even remember how they got that way in the first place, making them practically victims of a bureaucracy who simply refused to question WHY things were the way they were. In the anime, the Sinners are portrayed as more blatantly evil, while the rest of the demons seem contractually obligated to play "villains" for God in order to keep humanity in line, making them a bit more like Punch Clock Villains.

The crows in Princess Tutu are shown this way — justified because they're characters escaped from a fairytale. They're so evil that even their blood can affect a character's personality.

In Gundam SEED, you can count EACH and EVERY member of Blue Cosmos/LOGOS (and, to a lesser extent, Earth Alliance) an irredeemably evil, racist bastard, with the most likable person being a Brainwashed and Crazy super soldier who Shinn falls in loves with.

But since Blue Cosmos is, by the period the series take place in, very clearly shown to be an organization of such people, completely gone off track from its original purpose, this shouldn't be a surprise. LOGOS just exists to keep wars happening because hey, it's good for business.

The Veigans in Gundam AGE are all fanatically loyal to Lord Ezelcant without exception, deeming the extermination of all non-Veigans from their prized Eden to be a national goal/ideal.

The New Blood, or, at least, those directly related to Sicks in Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. For a long time, they intentionally bred so that the most evil would be the ones to reproduce. Eventually, they actually became a separate species, according to Sicks.

Yuri: ... a holy sword that you need to defeat the last boss. Wolfram: A holy sword? Yuri: It's not? ... Gwendal: Of course it's a demon sword!

The youma from Claymore, who live entirely to eat humans. And the awakened beings, whose nature is also to feed on humans, but are far more dangerous.

This probably has something to do with the fact that the youma are manufactured. The chaotic bloodthirstiness of the Awakened Beings is implied to be a bug the Council is desperately trying to work out, or at least turn into directed bloodthirstiness. The youma aren't even truly evil being mindless parasites. They mutate their hapless human hosts, driving them insane with a hunger that can only be satisfied by human flesh.

The Diclonius from Elfen Lied are viewed as beings that are hardwired to cause destruction and extinction among humans (with the exception of Nana), making them a near-literal example, though their behavior may also be influenced by the inhumane treatment they received at the hands of humans.

Though, by the end of the manga, we find out that the Diclonus are descendants of the Oni from ancient times (with Lucy being the only true genetic descendant), and that their need to kill humans stems from their demonic ancestors genetically encoding them to want to seek revenge on their destroyers.

But, the man who believed that turned out to not be a Diclonius at all but rather have a case of atavism, bringing that whole origin into question. Lucy was just the result of a mutation in her mother.

Hollows in Bleach are considered to be a race of evil spirits, driven to eating anything living or dead (including each other). Their more evolved "Arrancar" counterparts have been portrayed as having different dispositions, ranging from evil (Nnoitra, Szayelaporro), to slightly bad (Starrk, Harribel), to outright good (Nel).

Vampires in Hellsing are mostly like this. Good vampires, like Seras, are a very special exception. It is not clear if the transformation to a vampire brings out the worst of person or if all vampires are all irredeemably evil. It is possible that since the survival of a vampire requires killing people for blood and souls at some point all vampires simply give up to their bloodlust. At one point one vampire even comments on how he and his comrades can never enjoy things normal people enjoy, but are forced to live the life of a monster.

Most of the vampires we see in the series were Card Carrying Villainsbefore becoming vampires, being vicious war-mongers. Who were also Nazis. In their case, becoming vampires didn't turn them evil. It just gave them fangs.

Subverted with the Ill from March Story, who seem like this at first before we see any of the good ones. The organization that hunts them still believes them to be this trope, though.

The people Heuller kills were planning to kill Rodin, and she was just trying to protect him. Too bad he never found out about her reasons.

The beaver woman was misguided, but she is shown to genuinely care for her (adopted)son.

The possessed doll in chapter 13 never harms anyone, was only trying to entertain his owner, and killed himself so that the Unlucky Childhood Friend could get lucky and get the girl.

In Attack on Titan, the titular giant humanoids devour humans for no apparent reason other than because they enjoy it. They are incapable of digesting food, seem to draw their energy from the sun, and ignore animals completely. In fact, when their stomach becomes full from devouring victims, they vomit to make room for more tasty human treats. The unique variants that do display intelligence are even more dangerous, actively seeking to Kill All Humans while showing no interest in eating anyone themselves. Only it turns out to be far more complicated than that. The Titan Shifters are all morally complex individuals, most of them traumatized Tyke Bombs struggling with the terrible duties they've been assigned. The regular Titans are similarly not what they seem, but are transformed humans trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine with no control over their actions. Hange theorizes that their instinct to devour humans is because eating a Titan Shifter allows them to regain their humanity via Cannibalism Superpower.

The rest of the world sees Eldians as this, especially Eldians living on Paradis Island (even to non-Paradis Eldians), thanks to propaganda by the Kingdom of Marley, who are in an eternal power struggle with the Eldia Empire for control over the Nine Titans.

The Life Fibers from Kill la Kill are revealed to be a parasitic race of aliens who travel from planet to planet and later implode them to scatter their seeds throughout space. They disguise themselves as clothing because simply covering their host whole overwhelms and kills them. The sole exceptions to this are Senketsu and Ryuko, and it's only because they have human DNA in them.

Any Digimon that's a Myotismon variant or has "devi" in their name is pretty much guaranteed to be a villain.

In InuYasha incident on the "lower yokai" to having the shape of large insects or worms. In really every opportunity when you see them, they have nothing else in mind than attacking humans (or half-yokai). And although many can speak of them, they do not seem to be overly clever.

The yokai that have a human-like figure that thing however is different. Even among them there are many who are evil, but many are good. Apparently they are endowed with reason at the same level and as sentient human beings, even if many of them despise the humans.

Inverted completely, it is with the "Trickster-Yokai" such as Shippo and Hachiemon. Each of them seems to be really good. Shippo is even the most innocent character among the protagonists.

However, they seem already to have a (harmless) tendency to scare people, annoy or playing pranks.

Played with regarding Demons in Devilman. While some demons like Sirene and Kaim are capable of displaying care for others, the vast majority are bloodthirsty, violent hedonists eager to destroy humanity and take their place as the dominant species, and only through being dominated by a human they attempt to possess and becoming a Devilman are they capable of displaying selflessness and compassion (and even then the Devilman still has to fight against their baser urges.)

How Zero views purebloods and to a lesser degree vampires in general in Vampire Knight. He gets better though.

With the exception of the protagonist Yuki in I Became The Demon Lord So I Created A Dungeon, the general consensus among everyone, including other Demon Lords, is that Demon Lords are haughty, vicious, and vile beings who all commit atrocity purely for their own amusement. Yuki is the very, very rare exception because he's a reincarnated Earth human, and prefers to live quietly, at peace.

Torquemada in Nemesis the Warlock claims that all aliens are Always Chaotic Evil, although even he privately acknowledges that this is a lie given to justify the extreme Fantastic Racism of his regime. The series, in fact, spent much of its early run subverting the common application of this trope to the more grotesque aliens.

Subverted in DC Comics of the early-to-mid Silver Age. That era almost invariably depicted alien cultures as having made a choice between Good Republic and Evil Empire. Every alien race was assumed capable of both "good" and "evil", and "evil" regimes could always be overthrown, while "good" ones could always be subverted.

The Skrulls, the most recurring evil race and, in fact, the first one created by Lee and Kirby. The Kree are evil as well, being an empire of smug space fascists, but we usually see them though a pariahthat turned to the light side (usually using the name "Captain Marvel"), rather than as a full evil race.

Instances exist of good or good-leaning Skrulls, such as Ethan Edwards (Raised by Humans) and Jazinda. Also, Cadre K, the mutant Skrulls who were brought together and taught by Professor X. And occasionally a Skrull who's gone native after impersonating humans for too long, such as Lyja. They are rare, though.

The Dire Wraiths from ROM: Space Knight wholeheartedly embraced evil. Their planet was so supernaturally suffused with corruption that Galactuscouldn't eat it. The Wraiths were about as close to being literal demons as a flesh and blood race can hope to be, and they took pride in it. While one Wraith did try to make a HeelFace Turn after disguising himself as a family man for years and discovering love and kindness were actually pretty nice, his comrades taught his son how to be evil, and the boy took to their lessons so well that he eventually murdered his parents. The Dire Wraiths actually enforce evil by indoctrinating it into their young so decent Dire Wraiths are the exception rather than the rule. It also turns out they're actually a divergent offshoot of the Skrulls (or maybe the other way around), above.

In Jack Kirby's Eternals, the Deviants qualified abundantly. The Celestials "gifted" them with constant mutations, causing them to generally look monstrous, and inflicting them with a seriously high infant mortality rate - their culture uses eugenics simply to keep mutations from getting too out of hand. They also hate baseline humans, previously enslaved them in prehistoric times, and would generally like their slave empire back, thank you. However, Neil Gaiman's 2007 reboot introduced considerable ambiguity into the picture.

From The Mighty Thor we have the Dark Elves and Fire Demons. The Dark Elf culture is built on treachery and violence with even the nicer members of the species shown as war-mongerers. The Fire Demons have a desire to kill everything that isn't them. Both are responsible for numerous wars of aggression against the other realms, are willing to commit any atrocity imaginable and no regret about any of it.

Prior to the DC reboot, the precursors of the Green and White Martians, the Burning Martians, were psychotic monsters that fed on flame and destruction.

Joss Whedon's "Breakworld" arc in Astonishing X-Mendeconstructed this trope with its portrayal of the eponymous Planet of Hats. The Breakworlders, whose society is built around endless war, are set up as the antagonists of the arc for fairly obvious reasons. But then it's revealed that the true Big Bad is the ultra-pacifist leader of a resistance group, who wants to end the wars by destroying the planet and wiping out its entire population. The conclusion points out that, in a society where violence and tyranny are the norm, the truly "evil" people would be the ones devoted to peace. Accordingly, their actions would probably be far less moral and logical than the average people who simply believe what they were raised to believe.

Also, they were only trying to destroy Earth because they thought Earth was trying to destroy them.

Transformers: More than Meets the Eye shows more of the Decepticons' lives, aside from destroying planets and good-guys. The Autobot Ore mentions that his goal at the end of the war was to get a new alt-mode and befriend a 'Con as "they can't all be psychopaths right?". The story shifts to 6 Decepticons for an arc to show the mentality; they joke around, fail at their quest, and their leader tries to reign in the more eccentric of their group, but they also joke about killing organics, and rob their dead comrade instead of mourning him, because hey, he ain't gonna be needing those parts.

Also, in the IDW-verse, as things get more and more complicated, we see characters who were Decepticons working alongside Autobots more than once. Even Starscream can rein in his trademark tendencies for the right reason. They're definitely shown to be individuals once the usual status quo no longer applies.

Dreamkeepers has the Nightmares, who exist solely to destroy all the Dreamkeepers and, by extension, humanity.

The Evronians from Paperinik New Adventures are Emotion Eaters that need to attack other races to drain them of the emotions that feed both them and some of their technologies, and cause untold and unneeded destruction for no other reason they can. It's subverted by both a few individual members (especially Gorthan) and the fact that, before Xadhoom exterminated most of them, they were trying to solve the energetic problem (in fact one possible alternative power source was Xadhoom herself, had they managed to keep her captured long enough), and after that a group of survivors prove themselves relatively peaceful when they ask Earth for help, but is later Double Subverted when that same group of survivors use the chance to insert a shape-shifting spy on Earth to prepare a future invasion.

In the reboot it's shown the Evronians had not always been like that, and imply that they had become that way due a combination of the emotion-powered technology and the war with the Guardians of the Galaxy (in fact, when Zondag changes the timeline to prevent the birth of the Guardians it results in the Evronians becoming peaceful, not using emotion-powered technology anymore and using their dietary needs to free people from bad emotions).

Shakara: Just about every species within the Hierarchy are evil to the last individual. The Succubi at least have the justification of needing to eat other worlds to survive, but others like the Psicos revel in bullying other species by lording their vast psychic powers over them.

The olfs are three billions of xenophobic assholes who get even worse when King Bouboulou comes back from the dead, as he removes the reforms such as capital punishment being abolished and break the treaty with the only race they are allied to with glee, as a bloodbath is the best way to celebrate his return.

The invisibles are a race of Eldritch Abomination who made the treaty with King Bouboulou. The treaty was simply: The invisibles may live on the rooftops in exchange for mutilating every non-olf they spot in the city. They are also shown to be siding with the Big Bad despite not needing to breath like the other conscripts (who'll lose their oxygen the moment the villain hear their treachery), implying they are just fine with a demon ruling the world.

The Great Khan's Géhenne army are made of winged lizards who only care about strength, drinking and eating villagers. They have a twisted code of honor about blind obedience and preying on the weak and those with no honor just change blind obedience to Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.

In crossover Alternate Universe fics, usually with the Stargate-verse, the Twelve Colonies from Battlestar Galactica are portrayed as psycho gun-happy Earth invaders, despite there being no evidence for this. Most of these fics are absolutely horrible derivatives of Reunions Are A Bitch, which laid most of the blame on the leaders, and the Average Joe Colonial earnestly believed that they're doing the right thing and helping Earth with their invasion.

A Crown of Stars: Subverted in chapter 15. After Shinji mentions that he and Asuka got forced to work for military dictators, Rayana says there are groups of purely evil people... but simultaneously she remarks that those groups are mercifully rare.

Which is why target discrimination and appropriate levels of force are integral parts of our militarys training. We know that purely evil people and groups are thankfully rare. So we exercise careful attention when it comes to meting out judgment on those who become our enemies. Daniel swallowed a bit of his own fish. And as for Jinnai, well see to him later. Death may be a little too merciful for him.

The Muk and bug-type Pokémon in the Poké Wars series are portrayed as mindless killing machines.

In the Mass Effect fanfic The Council Era, the dezban race are perceived as being utter savages by the rest of the galaxy. For the vast majority of the species, this became true after the Great War, but an exception is introduced in the dezban bounty hunter Sevalaus Morkaneto, who is both rational-thinking and far less aggressive than most of his brethren.

The Uchiha are usually portrayed as this, except Mikoto, Itachi, Obito and, on rare occasions, Sasuke. Obito is increasingly less likely to be portrayed as an exception, since he turned out to be the Big Bad in canon.

After hearing both Jade and Jackie's side of what has happened, Jade's former teacher Liz Hartman decides that evil is a conscious choice and believes that like Jade, other dark entities the Chans have fought became what they are by their experiences, saying that there is no such thing as inherent evil.

When asked of Tohru's opinion, it comes between those of Jackie and Uncle  he thinks that Jackie has a theory that has some evidence to support it, but he's unsure if it's worth the risks. He proposes that dark entities suffer from a functional disorder that makes them more inclined to darkness than light, making it hard to determine how much of their nature and actions are inherent or a matter of choice. He also suggests that their liberty of choice may be taken away when everyone, including themselves, thinks under the assumption that it doesn't even exist.

Subverted in The Equestrian Wind Mage, as it's stated that the monster races of Hyrule are not mindlessly evil, but were long ago cursed by Demise to obey anyone who summons them, for whatever purpose. As such, Vaati's servants go along with his HeelFace Turn, and actually befriend the ponies of Ponyville. And when Demise is reborn, and subsequently destroyed for good, at the end of Season 2, the curse is broken, allowing the monster races to integrate peacefully into Equestria.

Ruby and Nora: Grimm are still this, even in a universe where theyre given the possibility of a choice.

In Hellsister Trilogy, all Parademons are completely evil, to the point that thearmyofheroes has no compunction in killing them all. Justified because they were created by Darkseid, who was never a fan of free will.

In The Tale of Despereaux, even the narrator states that rats are always greedy, dirty, unheroic, and terrified of the light, with the exception of Rascuro who falls to the dark side for a while after he tries not to be Always Chaotic Evil.

The Vikings of the film How to Train Your Dragon initially believe that all dragons are horrible monsters who will always go for the kill. This is later proven false when Hiccup befriends Toothless and a few other dragons.

All hyenas seen in The Lion King are the hungry, antagonistic pawns of Scar. In The Lion Guard this trope was Retconned away when Kion meets a good hyena who insists that most hyenas are good. It just so happens every hyena seen so far besides her has been evil. There is also another good hyena in a non-canon book for the first film that is probably the inspiration for this character. Two of Janja's (main hyena antagonist for the show) lackeys are shown not to be so bad after all, as they readily and genuinely agreed to behave when in the Pride Lands after he kicked them out of the group, and true to their word they did no harm. They are pretty much the animal equivalent of Punch Clock Villains, only doing wrong because he's their boss.

The Kung Fu Panda franchise has a few species that seem to fall into this. The most notable examples are gorillas (although the television series has some morally ambiguous gorillas), crocodiles (with the exception of Master Croc; according to Word of God he did a HeelFace Turn), and especially wolves. Snow leopards aren't shown in a very positive light either, considering that this is the species of both Tai Lung and the Wu Sisters. The young snow leopard Peng Tai Lung's nephew is an exception. So much so that when he thought he might end up following Tai Lung's path he temporarily gave up Kung Fu.

Films — Live Action

The Skeksis in The Dark Crystal. Justified in that they're the other half of a species that accidentally split itself into good / evil races.

The aliens from Independence Day are kind enough to use a People Puppet to let humanity know straight-out that there can be no possible peace with them and that the only thing they want humanity to do is "die."

Gremlins from, well, Gremlins. Gizmo is the only member of the species who is good, and you'll notice that he never becomes a gremlin himself. The other Mogwai spawned from Gizmo also apply, but they're somewhat more benign than the full Gremlins. The novelization explains that the Mogwai were a failed attempt by alien scientists to create the perfect companion. Most Mogwai turned out to be dangerous. The rare few who turned out right like Gizmo are called "Eternals".

The martians in Mars Attacks!. Besides this one, relevant tropes include For the Evulz, Violence Is the Only Option, and We Come in Peace  Shoot to Kill. The cards on which the movie was based subverted this, showing a much more peaceful organization of martians who opposed the invasion. Given that, in the same set, humanity invaded Mars, kicked their asses while the war machines were off to Earth, and it eventually ends in Mars blowing up, it leads to the most unfortunate of implications. Or further villainization of the aggressive side of the populace for ruining it for everyone.

The Djinn race from Wishmaster. They're essentially demonic beings created at the dawn of time by God, and all their wishes boil down to a Deal with the Devil, so this trope is to be expected.

Another Star Wars race that are almost never depicted in a positive light are the Hutts. Every Hutt seen in the movies—and most of the ones in the Expanded Universe as well— are greedy, conniving mobsters who run criminal enterprises. There was one known instance of a Hutt Jedi, but even he fell to the Dark Side.

The Bugs in Starship Troopers. Although it's deliberately left unclear whether the Bugs started the war or if the humans did, they are absolutely merciless in battle and kill the humans without restraint. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation makes it clear that the Bugs themselves see humanity as this, regarding them as a virus. In any case, the humans' Fantastic Racism toward the Klendathu is obvious, to the point that they stomp on little, harmless bugs for reminding them of the big ones.

The Xenomorphs in Alien. They seemingly exist for the sole purpose of killing everything on a planet. It is subtly implied that they are indeed intelligent, not just bestial animals, which simply makes them even more terrifying. If you listen to Prometheus, this is because they were designed to be weapons. They can't help killing everything in sight that isn't them, it's what they're for.

The Expanded Universe plays with the trope a lot. More than a few characters who start out believing the aliens to be pure evil on par with Satan himself eventually come to the conclusion that they're no more evil than a volcano or a tsunami — simply a terrifying, destructive but ultimately neutral force which cares nothing for whatever morality its prey ascribes to it.

The Subsiders in Daybreakers. The regular vampires feed on blood but retain enough human qualities for some of them to even be sympathetic characters, but the Subsiders are feral monsters that kill on sight and prey on vampires and humans alike.

Men in Black has at least two intelligent alien species, the Bugs from the first film (represented by Edgar) and the Boglodites from the third film (represented by Boris), who are completely hostile to everything else out there due to their nature as ravenous Planet Looters. Serleena from the second film is implied to be similar, but we never find out if she has any brethren. Discussed in the first film regarding the Bugs:

Kay: Bugs thrive on carnage, Tiger. They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of other species. [...] Imagine a giant cockroach, with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper, is tear-assing around Manhattan Island in a brand-new Edgar suit. That sound like fun?

Subverted in Fury. While Some of the solders clearly believe this is the case for all Germans, Wardaddy tells Norman early on that most of the enemy army are simply doing exactly what they are doing (which doesn't they should go easy on them). Wardaddy does have a special disdain for the SS for understandable reasons. However, one of the only acts of Mercy (and the only one done outside of Geneva Convention regulations) is done by not only a German but by a member of the SS.

God's Not Dead and it's sequel got a lot of criticism for depicting people who don't share Christian beliefs this way. Pretty much every Atheist character in the films is characterized as a smug, angry, selfish, obnoxious, mustache twirling and unhappy person who wants to destroy christians because he hates their faith.

The Chitauri from The Avengers (2012) are a legion of ravenous aliens whose only personality characteristic is to be led into battle by Loki. When they arrive in New York, they raze the city and cause mass chaos with little objective or purpose.

The main antagonists in Thor: The Dark World are the Dark Elves, a species of being from Svartalfheim (the eponymous "Dark World"), led by Malekith the Accursed. Due to mostly unexplored motivations that never made it into the final cut of the movie, their goal sums up as a Generic Doomsday Villain's would, trying to return the Nine Realms to a place of darkness and little else. Bor Burison (Odin's father) slaughtered as much of their race as he could find, mostly because of this trope, as he believed their decimation was the only key to peace (which ultimately ended up true).

Game Books

Orcs and goblins in the Fighting Fantasy books are always evil. Dark elves are an interesting case — in most books, they are portrayed as powerful and very, very evil, but in Night Dragon, they become allies against the evilerNight Dragon. The first one the player meets explains that he doesn't want to see his entire race destroyed, just as the PC, a human, would not want to see all humans wiped out.

The book Titan, which serves as the backgrounder for the world that most Fighting Fantasy books are set in, subverts this trope with the Halfhand brothers. The humans Rerek and Myzar Halfhand, and their human followers, invaded and slaughtered a nation of orcs that were living in a fertile territory that the humans wanted. The book lampshades the fact that the humans were very much in the wrong in this case, since they were the ones who attacked the orcs first, even though the humans are also celebrated as the heroes!

Both used and subverted in the Lone Wolf franchise. Those beings created directly by Naar, the God of Darkness, such as Agarash and the Darklords, have his essence in place of the souls that living creatures possess, accounting for their Always Chaotic Evil nature. Their servants, such as the orc-like Giaks, are evil only because they have never had any other choice, having been bred and used as warrior-slaves for generations. They do not know love, kindness, or compassion because they have never seen it, and readers are swiftly led to feel pity for them even as they kill and torture their way across the heroes' homelands. Also, anyone described as "swarthy" is not to be trusted (leading to some veryUnfortunate Implications).

Live-Action TV

The orgs of Power Rangers Wild Force, or so it seems at first: The Empath Cole gets nothing from them saying they lack hearts entirely, but the Big Bad is a former human, who also registers as truly heartless. Also, in the end, the three main Duke Orgs reform. There's good in a Merrickless Zen-Aku but not Dr. Adler.

Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978). The Cylons in the original series were not created by humans, but by a different and now-extinct race. They were more like a weapon that got out of control than a species in their own right, as the newer series' Cylons were.

Battlestar Galactica (2003) is considerably more nuanced. Indeed, the logical impossibility of an Always Chaotic Evil race is Helo's argument against the proposed genocide of the Cylons in the episode "A Measure of Salvation". He really hammers home the point when talking to his Cylon wife, after she says she "chose to be a person."

"You were a person before you put on that uniform, okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you."

Babylon 5: The Drakh are this trope. They are portrayed as universally obsessed with exacting "revenge", at all scales from Mind Rape to genocide, over all other races, for the departure of the Shadows. The species has no internal "good guys", deeper motivations, or other redeeming qualities.

Subverted in Brimstone; the escaped souls are often evil, and one would expect them to be, but at least a few were shown to have been genuinely good people who made horrific decisions, or. in at least one case, were doing what they believed to be the best, only to then be judged by another religion's values, after dying. One was even so genuinely contrite and seeking redemption that he was taken to heaven instead of sent back to hell upon his recapture.

Reaper, which has a similar premise, has an episode introducing a soul who was fighting to control murderous impulses. He eventually acknowledged that the best thing was for him to go back to Hell until he sorted himself out.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, this applies to vampires, who lose their human souls (and thus, their sense of right and wrong) along with their humanity. Interestingly, this isn't true of other kinds of demons, especially in Angel and the later seasons of Buffy; some are always evil, but some may be neutral, and there are apparently even "good demons" dwelling on other planes of existence.

Doctor Who has a few of these, although they usually have a reason. For example:

The Daleks: mutated aliens in travel machines who are only capable of hate and negative emotions due to being bred that way by Mad Scientist Davros. They simply are made to believe Daleks are a supreme race and, unless events outside of their control are threatening reality with oblivion, everyone else deserves to die. They'reSpaceNazis (in the serial "Genesis of the Daleks", we learn that Davros "removed the brain cells of the conscience" from the proto-Daleks — a feat that would be, to put it mildly, challenging). In fact, the Daleks are so evil that the good Daleks or Dalek factions can be counted on one hand, and most of them turned good after being infected by humanity. In the episode "Into the Dalek," the Doctor reveals that part of every Dalek's extensive cybernetic modification is a computer that constantly monitors the Dalek's mind and memories to delete any trace of compassion or empathy. This is probably a Revision of the "removed the brain cells of the conscience" origin.

The Doctor: Imagine the worst possible thing in the universe, then don't bother, because you're looking at it right now! This is evil refined as engineering.

The original Cybermen had lost all their emotions after being cybernetically reconstructed, and couldn't see why someone wouldn't want to "become like us". The new series' version is closer to the Daleks, but they still try to Cyber-convert their victims instead of just killing everyone. And similarly to the Daleks, the Cybermen have had a few good specimens, mostly humans who weren't fully converted and refused to hop on the Cyber-bandwagon. These specimens include Yvonne Hartman, Danny Pink, The Brigadier, and the Doctor himself, as well as pretty much any Cyberman who loses the emotional inhibitor, realizes what it's become, and kills itself.

The Sontarans: Proud Warrior Race Guys who worship war; they're all clones of one guy, churned out by the trillions to fight an endless war against shapeshifting green blobs. And they fit into this trope as being Sometimes Lawful Neutral, since their actions always have a military objective and, unless they involve Earth, are not good or evil at face value.

The Nestene, who have spent a thousand million years colonising other worlds, apparently wiping out the local populations in the process. Even losing their planet in the Time War doesn't alter their behaviour, as their response is to invade Earth to make it their new home.

The Weeping Angels: Abstract alien entities from the "Dark Age" of the universe when the Time Lords were ascending to prominence, known to be filled with all manner of evil creatures. They are, apparently, the ideas of living things come to life to torture and kill us, which is a pretty scary concept. Their normal way of killing someone is actually rather nice- they send you back in time to a point where you can lead a full and happy life, dying eventually from old age long before you would have normally. They do this because they feed off of your "potential" energy, that you would have used. They can also kill you and feed off your potential energy that way; in "The Time of Angels," they kill people, and rip out at least one spinal cord to use as a communications device.

Oddly enough, the Time Lords are generally portrayed this way by default. While there are a few obvious exceptions - Susan, Romana, K'anpo Rimpoche, and the Doctor himself (on a good day) - the society as a whole is shown to be self-serving, arrogant, and dangerous. The Sixth Doctor called them "corrupt, decadent and rotten to the core". They executed the Second Doctor for the crime of trying to make the universe a better place, and later they themselves made it a worse place by starting the Time War, and then tried to escape the war of their own making by destroying time itself. When they finally do escape the war, the entire planet of them have to hide at the furthest end of time because literally everyone in the universe loathes them by now. It's also worth noting that about half of the series' most memorable individual villains - the Master, the Rani, Omega, Rassilon, the War Chief, Borusa, etc - were Time Lords. What muddies the waters here is that it's still unclear whether "Time Lord" is the name of a species - in which case this trope seems to apply - or merely of a social class - in which case they're just an instance of Aristocrats Are Evil instead.

The Reavers in Firefly. It's never quite explained why they don't kill/rape/eat each other, even though they travel in such massive groups. As revealed in the movie, Serenity, Reavers are infected with a chemical agent that, in .1% of the population, causes uncontrolled aggression.

The Goa'uld of Stargate SG-1 have a Bizarre Alien Biology that includes genetic memory, meaning that every new Goa'uld born inherits its parents' evil tendencies. The only non-evil ones ever seen are the Tok'ra, an offshoot who are all the children of a single rogue Goa'uld queen. Outside of the Tok'ra there's merely a little variability in how evil an individual Goa'uld is (Sokar and Anubis, for example, are considered monsters even by their fellow Goa'uld), and a few like Yu and Ba'al are just a more pragmatic evil.

With the occasional episodic exception (usually in the form of recurring character "Todd"), the Wraith in Stargate Atlantis also fit this trope. While their treatment of humans is explained by the fact that we're essentially tasty cows to them, they're still excessively sadistic about it. Wraith society seems very ruthless and survival-of-the-fittest oriented. I.e. the Klingon Promotion seems widely accepted, and Queens are often shown treating their subordinates like dirt. Not that there weren't historical human cultures that largely shared these values. They seem to have dialed it back slightly in the last couple of seasons of the show, with slightly less Large Ham gloating from some of the Wraith characters. Also, in "The Queen", the Wraith Commander expresses concern over the lives of his men, and the enemy Wraith.

The Borg in the later series. Except for individuals like Hugh, and some kind of subconscious resistance on Voyager.

The original series played with this trope in regards to Klingons. Most Klingon captains tend to fall into this, but some episodes (notably "The Day of the Dove") make a point to show that this is more a perception/stereotype our heroes have of them than an actual truth. Klingons are "the enemy", but not necessarily Always Chaotic Evil. Though episodes like "Day of the Dove" were the exception rather than the rule. The fifth movie based on the series was another exception. With the sixth original series film and Star Trek: The Next Generation, portraying Klingons this way was abandoned altogether.

Likewise, Ferengi were portrayed this way on Next Generation, but not Deep Space Nine.

Initially played straight with the Jem'Hadar in Deep Space Nine, with an infant Jem'Hadar who quickly turns out exactly how everyone warned Odo he would. But eventually averted with a few individuals later, who show some traits of Proud Warrior Race (mostly these are immediately killed). The Jem'Hadar and Vorta were both justified as species genetically manipulated by The Founders to fight their wars for them. Both were addicted to a substance only the Founders could provide, and were indoctrinated in the idea that the Founders were gods. Generally, they were Expendable Clones, although the Female Changeling did seem to mourn Weyoun #8's death.

Spectacularly averted with the Romulans. Even though they are The Federation's oldest and most persistent foe, most Romulan characters are depicted as being nuanced, sympathetic, and extremely honourable, even if they are a little arrogant or deceptive. Even the unambiguously villainous ones like Tomalak are depicted more as a Worthy Opponent than anything else. Interestingly, probably the most evil Romulan in canon, Commander Sela, is a Half-Human Hybrid.

Played straight (with one exception) with the Kazon; they were featured almost constantly on the show's first two seasons, and yet never received any significant Character Development or manifested any redeeming features whatsoever (not even in the form of defectors from decadence). The sole exception was the episode Initiations which gave the Kazon some motivation, and showed that the possibility of redemption existed in a few of them. Sadly, that was the show's only attempt to give the Kazon some depth.

In the episode "Nemesis", the Kadrin are a monstrous race who look like and are referred to as merciless beasts, have threatening voices, and are engaging in a genocidal war against the human Vori and desecrating their graves. Chakotay crash lands on the planet, and after witnessing all their atrocities, joins the Vori Defenders' cause. Subverted, since he had actually been captured and brainwashed by the Vori so they could recruit him as a soldier. The Kadrin are in fact the good guys, and helped the Voyager crew to rescue him from the warzone. When Chakotay meets with the friendly Kadrin ambassador, he can't shake the hatred that he developed for them.

In Andromeda the Magog are obligate carnivores who need to kill their prey themselves to start the digestive process, prefer sentient "food", and lay their eggs in the stomachs of other humanoids. Nietzscheans are genetically engineered superhumans who follow a themepark version of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy mixed with a heavy dose of Social Darwinism and overthrew the Systems Commonwealth causing the Long Night. But the Andromeda Ascendant's crew includes one of both species, Rev Bem is a Magog converted to a non-violent religion called Wayism while Tyr Anasazi was a Nietzschean mercenary who saw the Andromeda as a way to further his own interests.

In the miniseries North and South, anyone who is not on the side of the Mains or the Hazards is chaotic evil:

Justin, the man who marries Madeline beats her and gets her hooked on drugs so she can't think for herself.

Major Bent is nothing but evil.

Similarly, Orry's sister, Ashton, relishes in evil acts and does bad things just to spite others.

The overseer rapes the slaves and tries to kill Charles Main.

A guy who gets in a duel with Charles Main tries to cheat him by loading his weapon wrong to give him an advantage.

By the time Spartacus Vengeance rolls around, every single Roman is at best a total Jerkass, and at worst (and more likely) a complete monster. Cold-Blooded Torture is a pass time for them, and their cold hearted execution of prisoners. As well as their manipulations of the idiotic populous. Subverted in War of the Damned. Many Romans are introduced who are simply innocent civilians caught up in a war, Crassus comes off as a Noble Demon, and many of the rebels act like psychotic murders and rapists.

In SupernaturalDemons are shown to be nearly always sadistic, manipulative monsters. This is justified, because demons are souls tortured in hell until they lose any humanity.

Krommagg in Sliders are a parallel Earth evolution of aggressive hominids that go around invading other dimensions. With some very few examples, most are essentially A Nazi by Any Other Name.

Occasionally, you have a fallen angel who doesn't seem to have gone full-subterranean. In Jewish folklore, Asmodeus is sometimes regarded as attending synagogue, and does better than Solomon on some matters of morality (although, given that Solomon apparently lapsed in matters towards the close of his reign...). Some angels, such as Sammael and Zaphkiel, are both good and evil. The offspring of angels and humans are a different story. They're called "Nephilim" ("fallen" or "ruinous") for a reason. In fact, 1 Enoch posits that the reason for the Flood was that if they weren't drowned out, the Nephilim would have devoured the world down to the bedrock. After that, the Nephilim wouldn't be done; they will just persist as evil spirits. In other words, the vast majority of demons were undead Nephilim.

And demons aren't even consistently always evil in even Christian traditions (predating the 20th century that is). Many grimoires show them as more animalistically dangerous than malicious.

While not presented so in the Good Book itself, many a sermon has been preached that the Romans were this, especially once Nero came to power.

Likewise, imps are always chaotic little buggers, and are said to be especially adept at pulling some very dark shenanigans on anyone who slights them. That said, they aren't particularly evil in most myths, just a source of minor annoyance, since they love to play ultimately harmless pranks like stealing and hiding some small, virtually worthless items to mess with somebody.

In many myths, ghosts only wish to inflict pain on the living even if they were good people in life.

Just about every monster in Filipino mythology qualifies. With some exceptions (like the Kapre, the Sarimanok and the Alan Bird), all of the Philippines' monsters are either man-eating demons or soul-stealing phantoms.

Tabletop Games

The trope name comes from Dungeons & Dragons, which certainly used the trope, though this particular phrase only came in later on and in fact signaled something of an aversion. The real reason for the use of the trope was so players wouldn't feel bad when killing monsters and taking their treasure (i.e. home invasion). In fact, the whole cosmology of the D&D universe used to be based on alignment; Good and Evil (and Law and Chaos) weren't morally relative terms, they were natural forces that influenced most creatures — very few races (including the Player Character races) could actually choose their alignments willingly; the rest were doomed to be what they were born as.

Originally, every type of monster or creature would simply have an entry for "Alignment" stating one Character Alignment or another, without any modifiers; not only did it imply that practically all creatures of that type had the alignment, but it wasn't even brought up that there could be any other way.

In later editions, this was relaxed, by inserting "often", "usually" or "always" in front of the alignment descriptor, to indicate how strong a tendency, cultural or otherwise, the race in question had to be of the alignment. This also created the phrase "Always Chaotic Evil". Now, the only races who are always one alignment or another are those who are somehow "tied" to good or evil (or law or chaos), such as demons, angels, and other spiritual creatures; or those without sufficient Intelligence to recognize alignment, which are always neutral unless the previous rule overrides it. (Lemures, lowest of the devils, don't have an Intelligence score but are still Always Lawful Evil.)

Whether this trope is now averted even with the mortal "bad guy" races is another matter. They are still marked as "usually evil", which, depending on how it's handled, can easily be so close to "they're all bad" as to make no difference.

In-universe, the "usually evil" nature of some races is justified by their racial deities, such as Lloth for the Drow and Gruumsh for the Orcs, being evil. These gods also work very hard to make sure that their worshippers are just as bad as they are, and any that aren't tend to end up on the gods' hit list. Good deities tend to respect free will more than the evil ones, so their races have evil, good, and neutral people. Human alignment is all over the place since they don't have a racial deity to call their own. In some cases, an evil race will also have been created by an evil god.

The Eberron campaign setting for D&D 3.5 has gone so far as to explicitly discourage the use of the alignment section of a monster's stats, even for those who are "tied" to a certain alignment. The core book also makes clear that "evil" does not equal "kill on sight" — the tavern owner overcharges for draft and cheats on his wife; are you gonna put the sword to his neck like you would with Lord Dark Von Doompantsington XIII?

The Orcs of Eberron are a bit of a weird case. Many of the traditionally "bad" races, while not born evil, still live primarily in violent cultures, usually with values that can be summarized as "you're either stepping on people or getting stepped on!" However, not only are the Orcs almost never villainous, Orcish Druids sealed away the Daelkyr (one of three major existential threats to Eberron).

The supplements Book of Vile Darkness and Exalted Deeds make it clear that neither good nor evil can be defined as "nice and naughty", and those that don't devote their life to either actually qualify as neutral. Presumably, this is why a rogue isn't necessarily evil, even though theft is frowned upon.

Players themselves seem to like subverting Always Chaotic Evil tropes (or embracing them) simply because the "evil" races and cultures are much more interesting than the generic "protagonist" races. As GM and Dungeons & Dragons translator Andrey Lensky wrote long ago:

... my experience suggests: write in Monster Manual that among 100 cambions one is Good, and this one will get into adventure.

The Drow of the Forgotten Realms setting and the Draconians of the Dragonlance setting are classic examples of "evil races". However, as the plot went on, individuals arose — specifically, Rule of Cool scimitar-wielding (and heavily parodied in every single fantasy webcomic, due to his being heavily copied by virtually every fanboy at one point or another) Drizzt. Initially based on fanboyism, entire counter-cultures have arisen of differing alignment (as the page quote points out). In the Realms, most "good" Drow are the worshipers of Eilistraee, a goddess of the moon and hunt, whose (almost Always Female) clerics worship their goddess by performing a sword dance naked. Though the clerics of the Evil Goddess were also all female.

Dragonlance: The Draconians are getting more development as well — they were initially introduced as somewhat snazzier Orc-equivalents, but later books reveal that the average Draconian is only a few years old and has been force-fed a Religion of Evil from birth to create the perfect fighting race. This generally worked, but after the collapse of the dragonarmies, some Draconians began developing more individuality, and the Kang's Regiment series centers on a group of sympathetic Draconian protagonists who just want to be left alone to build up their race in peace.

Even back in the days of 2e, Spelljammer had some fun with this. It was revealed that Tarrasques — immense creatures existing solely for destruction, only failing to have the Chaotic Evil alignment due to lacking the degree of consciousness having an alignment implies — are naturally docile lithovores; the more familiar ones are the result of their being driven homicidally insane by atmospheres not matching the unique composition of their homeworld's. One of the iconic setting NPCs is a non-evil mutant Beholder bartender, and the eponymous ship also played host to some fairly decent Illithids who peacefully coexisted with the other races and fed on a special type of mold (that was secretly sapient in large quantities, else they wouldn't be able to derive nourishment from it), though ones not on the Spelljammer were as usual.

Interestingly, under 3e/3.5e, demons are Always Chaotic Evil, even when they aren't — sort of. It's possible — although incredibly rare — for a demon to have an alignment other than Chaotic Evil, but chaos and evil are such an integral part of their being that for magical effects, they still count as Chaotic Evil in addition to whatever their actual alignment is. Devils work the same for Lawful Evil, and the various celestials work this way for various flavors of Good. Since these creatures are essentially alignment concepts given life, it is rather hard to change them.

And yes, this does mean that, say, the Succubus who was driven by The Power of Love to forsake her evil ways or the penitent Pit Fiend will show up on a Paladin's Detect Evil. Staying away from them — especially the extra-stabby kind — is recommended for any reformed Demons or Devils.

Pathfinder (the official setting, that is) plays it straight, with the only significant difference being how much more willing it is to describe the kind of evil they are, for example, any drow who displayed compassion or altruism would get hunted down and killed (Take That!, Drizz't!), or bugbears not simply being another goon-monster but a species of freakishly large yet uncannily sneaky serial killers who thrive on murder, or the infamous hillbilly rapist ogres.

By their very nature, liches are Evil because the process of becoming one involves mass slaughter and bending the very forces of life and death to your will. Except if you're an archlich or a baelnorn.

One can be a good aligned lich outside of archliches and baelnorns, but it requires a particularly cruel and/or vindictive necromancer performing the ritual to pull out the soul of an unwilling participant and putting it into a phylactery. A cruel but fun way to deal with lawful stupid or it can be a decent roleplaying opportunity, seeking out your phylactery to have it destroyed, fighting evil along the way and saving lives.

Outside of Spelljammer, Illithids are an almost universally evil alien race of psychic slavers. The Elder Brains that rule their civilization are even worse. In the Forgotten Realms, there is one good Illithid, and that one is a very unusual case. Fortunately for everyone else in the setting, Illithid society is a mere shadow of what it used to be thanks to their former slaves, the Githyanki, rising up against them. As a result, the Illithids are pragmatic enough to rein in their desire to eat brains long enough to trade and make deals with other races. That said, your chances of leaving with your brain intact after running into an Illithid in a dark alley all alone are still next to none.

Illithids, along with several other non-Outsider (Outsiders who are always evil tend to be that because they are made from evil) creatures that fall under this trope, have a good justification for being 'Always' Evil: they have to be, to survive. Not only does their life-cycle demand the sacrifice of sapient humanoids for new illithid to come to be, but they gain nourishment from sentience. Eating the brains of non-sapient animals helps, but not all that much. End result: a species that, to survive as a species and to a lesser degree as individuals, have to consistently and repeatedly act in ways that the rules of the universe classify as evil.

Far Realm entities from D&D can be considered this, from the players point of view they would almost always be chaotic evil, although in reality it may be more a case of Blue and Orange Morality.

As of the most recent edition, Gamma World has actually turned several monster species that used to be relatively peaceful in earlier editions (like the Menarls, Grens, Sleeths, and Orlens) into this.

Warhammer Fantasy is rather dark for a fantasy setting, though not quite to the extent of Warhammer 40,000. There are actually a few good guys. Evil races include Daemons, Beastmen, Orcs, Goblins, Undead, Skaven, Dark Elves, and Ogres. Also, one of the few times in which the "chaotic" part of Always Chaotic Evil plays a part, as every evil race can be traced back to mutations caused by Chaos, which is a powerful force in the Warhammer world.

Ogres are on this list for a somewhat different reason than other races. They live in a society that is based only on one rule. Might makes right. Their god could easily be a weird mix of Slaanesh and Nugle, with gluttony and avarice being main virtues ogres value. Despite the fact that ogres seemingly follow many rules, one of their special characters had his hands chopped off for the crime of eating his leaders' gnoblars, despite him being shaman for their god. What makes Warhammer ogres chaotic is the fact that while ogres can be negotiated with successfully, unlike orcs and forces of Chaos, ogres don't feel bad for eating you a second after the contract is done. One of their tribes actually value iron more than gold for the simple reason that with gold they can buy a weapon of iron, but with a weapon of iron they can have all of your gold.

Warhammer's Undead do not all follow this trope. Most of the "gothic" undead of the Vampire Counts' armies do, but the "ancient world" undead of the Tomb Kings do not. The Tomb Kings are one of Warhammer's two "neutral" armies (the other being Ogre Kingdoms), and while many are given to acts of cruelty, tyranny, despotism and brutality they are really just behaving like the ancient absolute rulers they were in life. Sure, they'll hound you to the ends of the earth and butcher you without mercy to recover their stolen treasures, but any Dwarf worth his beard will do that too, and nobody calls them irrecoverably evil.

That said, some of the Vampire Counts have enough redeeming qualities to avoid this. For example, Vlad von Carstein's quest to take over the Empire was driven by a (rather accurate) belief that it was too weak and beset by petty infighting to oppose Chaos and was reportedly rather fair as a ruler, and he deeply loved his wife Isabella and she loved him back - she even threw herself from the walls of Altdorf and committed suicide when she received news that he had been killed.

The Dark Eldar ultimately subvert the trope. They can only stay alive and young by murdering and torturing as many people as possible, so their entire culture is based around killing and butchering people. And if they can't find people of other races to do it to, well... However, they are still considered part of the larger race of Eldar by their kin, who vary wildly in Character Alignment. It is possible for Dark Eldar to get sick of being Chaotic Evil and join some other Eldar faction, ultimately blending in entirely with their new comrades. With that said, any Eldar living in Commorragh is going to be evil... or prey.

The original Necron fluff painted them as universally devoted to the cause of destroying all life in the galaxy. The Retconned fifth edition fluff, on the other hand, allows for a bit more nuance. The rank and file warriors are mindless automatons with only the barest shred of memory of their former lives, while the more privileged Lords and Crypteks maintain a good portion of their original personality, although often flawed due to the Time Abyss they've slept through. While all Necrons still fight against the Imperium of Man, some, like Nemessor Zahndrekh, are more like Noble Demons or Worthy Opponents.

The Orks play this trope as straight as it gets. They have it written into their genetic code to fight, murder, and plunder worlds just for fun, and it takes an incredibly powerful Ork to keep other Orks from fighting amongst each other. When led by powerful Orks called Warbosses, Orks undertake massive invasions called "WAAAGH!s" to conquer and loot worlds. A world that has been the subject of a WAAAGH! will be "infested" by Feral Orks that are incredibly difficult to exterminate. The Feral Orks will always wage nonstop wars against everything on the world. When a WAAAGH! encounters Feral Orks, the Feral Orks will usually join it.

This is justified since the Old Ones created the Orks for the sole purpose of being their soldiers/meat shields in the War in Heaven. Their insane love of fighting and war is a hard-wired design feature. This worked fine while the Orks were fighting the Necrons. Too bad that by the time war ended, the Old Ones were already extinct or otherwise missing, leaving the Orks behind to plunder the galaxy. Even worse, the Old Ones died off before they could put on the final modification to the Orks that they put on hold to rush them into battle: the off-switch.

The forces of Chaos play this straight too. If only for the fact that if you consider worshipping daemonic eldritch horrors to be a good idea, being evil is kind of a requirement. Of course, a lot of the people on Chaos' side started out with the best of intentions.

Carrying on from the H.P. Lovecraft example up in Literature, many, many creatures in CthulhuTech are invariably sociopathic mass-murderers. For example, the Dhohanoids are almost invariably driven violently insane by the Rite of Transfiguration.

Rifts uses this trope, but also provides the interesting case of the Faustians in the Phase World setting: An Always Chaotic Evil race that got on the wrong side of a war against an Evil Empire even worse than them, forcing them to run to The Consortium of Civilized Worlds to survive. Being exceptionally smart that day, the CCW put the Faustians on a rather strict probationary membership, leaving the Faustians to harshly police their own bad sides. If even one of them pulls off any large-scale villainy, they all get booted out and right back into the waiting fangs of the Empire.

There is also a possible justification in an NPC's history in Rifts Mercenaries: a "renegade" Tauton's story talks about how he was taught to hate and be almost mindlessly aggressive against other races. He didn't like it, and got out as soon as he could.

In Steve Jackson Games' RPG In Nomine players tend to happily gut this trope alive in order to play "Bright" Lilim which are canonically extremely rare (Lilim are a race of demons that was created out of whole cloth rather then coming from Fallen angels). Players just like to be special. Also depending on your group and the preferred style of play actual demons may or may not be particularly evil. Some groups prefer "Bright Low Contrast" in which neither side is really evil and the game is played for shenanigans.

In Exalted, we have demons, who may or may not have anything against gods, mortals, and Exalts personally, but are completely incapable of disobeying their vengeful progenitors, the Yozis.

As with many Exalted tropes, this one is implied to be more complex than at first glance: in the Roll of Glorious Divinity II, it's implied that demons are afraid of love, because the Yozis have ground it into them that there is no such thing as love without pain. Besides certain plot hooks, this begs the question: what kind of life must a demon lead?

Even still, Phyrexians in their newest form seem to move away from this trope. Ever since the Phyrexians took over Mirrodin, turning it into New Phyrexia, there have been five different factions corresponding to each of the five colors, and each being lead by a praetor, each with their own brand of pitch-black evil... Except the red praetor, Urabrask the Hidden, who, true to his red mana alignment, is a lot more individualistic and merciful than the other praetors, and therefore leads the only Phyrexian faction capable of free will and compassion. Probably due to this, he is the only Phyrexian leader who plots against the other praetors not simply to gain power but to actually work against Phyrexia as a whole. This is mainly because Phyrexia's primary goals strongly go against two of red's strongest points: freedom and emotion.

The World of Darkness is full of these, though they are usually not the primary antagonists of the players.

Werewolves have the Wyrm, the supernatural force of death and corruption, which used to be the relatively balanced great spirit of destruction, serving a useful and necessary purpose, until it was caught in the Weaver's Webs.

Pretty much played straight with The Black Spiral Dancers. They were once Garou who descended into the Wyrm's very own home in an attempt to destroy it. They lost and were forced to "dance The Black Spiral." This had severeconsequences on their psyches. Any one who enters that monstrosity is doomed to a life of depravity and madness.

Anything from the Abyss is this in Mage: The Awakening. The Banishers also qualify, since they're supernaturally powered by enlightened self-hatred that they're projecting into hatred of everyone else by their very nature. Some powers and effects unique to certain specialties also require blood sacrifice or the use of souls as fuel, making the members of those specialties this.

Reversed painfully in Promethean The Created, where the universe itself regards the player characters as this and continually tries to reject or destroy them, even though they are (mentally) essentially human, even erring on the side of virtuous in most cases.

Vampire The Requiem has The Strix in its second edition. To an owl they hate both vampires and the living simply because they live (or at least have a corporeal body). They delight in murder in chaos and are one of few things out there that scare vampires.

Dragons in Iron Kingdoms are pretty much without exception massive assholes. The dragon-led factions in the wargame are pretty much without exception the most evil - the Trollbloods, Convergence of Cyriss and Cygnar are respectable, Khador and Skorne imperialistic but still sane, the Retribution of Scyrah, Menoth and Circle Orboros Knight Templars, but Cryx is a nightmarish pit of undead under a dragon-god who wants to turn the world into his weapons against his offspring and the Legion of Everblight are twisted, mutated elves in service of one such offspring who would prefer not to be reabsorbed by the dragon-god thank you.

The Skakdi play with it: they're naturally violent, but are capable of forming civilizations that thrive, unfortunately the Brotherhood of Makuta decided to experiment by giving them superpowers and they devolved into the violent war torn mess they are today.

The Brotherhood of Makuta themselves are a zig-zagged example, and mostly an Informed Attribute: they are the antagonists, several of them are verynasty, and their leader is the Big Bad; but most Makuta who we see are more in vein of Mad Scientists, indifferent to anything but their personal creations, which they dote on; or Just Following Orders. Several Alternate Universe versions of Teridax and other Makuta are good, and even among the prime-Brotherhood there are a few decent members like Krika and Miserix. Justified in that most of the Makuta seen in-story were the ones who rallied behind Teridax, while anyone who didn't (with exception to Miserix and Krika, who were imprisoned and went along resignedly) were executed. The unborn Makuta spirits within their original Antidermis pool, however, are all on the side of good.

The spider race of the Visorak are treated as an Always Lawful Evil race, being very disciplined soldiers while they often go and conquer other lands on the behalf of their commanders while taking pleasure in killing and mutating any life they come across. No thought is ever given by any of the heroes to somehow turn them towards noble purposes (except Toa Vakama when he was in the middle of Sanity Slippage), and when the horde was leaderless the Order of Mata Nui eventually decided the best option would be to wipe out the entire race.

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The Dimension of Pain demons from Sluggy Freelance are quite openly evil, even using the phrase "How evil" as the highest form of praise. Their hatred of anything good is taken to comedic extremes, from being unable to stand the smell of flowers, to being called "dysfunctional" if they don't fight enough with their family, to considering a relaxing massage a form of torture. Despite this, many of them still manage to have their own distinct personalities. They may all be evil, but, like with human beings, greed and stupidity usually get in the way.

Many of the named characters among them seem to act evil towards humans, but not to each other. Others are humorously evil (or something) even amongst their own kind, for example, eating each other randomly.

The bleeds from Agents of the Realm are material sprits which "bleed over" from the barrier between dimensions. Their first and, it would seem, only instinct is to attack people, especially Agents.

The major theme of the D&D-based webcomic Goblins is pointing out that usuallyChaotic Evil really does only mean usually...as well as exploring the root causes behind this, and whether it's even true (which, while debatable in real life ethics, is stated to be so in the rulebooks). To this end, the protagonists have run across a surprising number of evil humans and other typically good or neutral races (including Kore and Dellyn), while their typically chaotic or evil compatriots are either neutral, good, or driven to evil.

As an expected result of this conflict, a Knight Templar has already appeared.

Unlike Goblins, the setting is close to entirely consistent with the D&D source material. Out of several arcs involving a stuffed up Knight Templar Paladin who "generously" gives the main character Roy time to "improve" his behavior. He eventually gets her guard down by apologizing — then condemns her for her own faults. This is similar to the way in which "evil" races are treated - while the sociopathic serial killer in the troupe is occasionally given a free pass because he's a halfling (often harmless and jovial and cute) — or more likely because, overall, he does more good than harm, even if not quite intentionally.

Subverted and parodied simultaneously in a short series of strips in which the Order meets a group of teenaged goblins who are good-aligned — for the explicit reason that it cheeses off their parents, who are Evil. "Listen to me, young man, you will drink the blood of the innocent and you will LIKE IT!"

Redcloak's entire character arc from Start of Darkness can be seen as a Deconstruction of this trope: the goblins are formally designated as Evil Cannon Fodder by the gods, which doesn't sit too well with him when his family is slaughtered by crusading paladins. His ultimate goal is to give his race equal standing among the other major species of the world, but he slowly takes more and more horrific actions pursuing his plan to do so — thus becoming the very thing that he objects to being labeled as. Is he evil because goblins are inherently evil, or because he has been designated as such?

In the Dragon Magazine strips, the Order run into a goblin group that fall under the category of Harmless Villains, whose evil extends to making a big deal out of extinguishing street lamps, and proceed to leave them alone when they turned out not to be the guys that were sacrificing innocents. Even Belkar walks away, though that may be because they pointed them to the refreshments on the way out.

Doubly subverted when the Order of the Stick first runs into the Linear Guild. Vaarsuvius' counterpart is a dark elf named Zz'dtri who claims that he isn't evil, even though his race is Always Chaotic Evil. Nale explains that once Dark Elves became a player race, they became Chaotic Good and wanted to ward off their former evil reputations (a Take That! towards the many, many Drizzt clones). Ultimately, the Linear Guild (Zz'dtri included, since they needed the OOTS to touch the sigils) turns out to be evil.

The Darth Vaarsuvius arc explores this as well. Vaarsuvius casually killed a black dragon in the Wooden Forest during the sidequest to get Roy's starmetal. No one had any moral qualms about it (not even Miko), because black dragons are Always Chaotic Evil, and it even named a trope! Much later, the dragon's much more powerful mother shows up when Vaarsuvius is alone, and she ispissed.She very nearly murders V's spouse and children, and V retaliates by using an uber-spell to wipe out 1/4 of the dragon's entire species. In the commentary, Burlew discusses the implications of this. The magnitude of this act was to show that if this was wrong, then it's no less wrong to invade a dragon's home and murder it for its treasure, regardless of its moral alignment.

What's more, two later comics show the full unpleasant ramifications of V's actions. By casting that Familicide spell, V not only killed off 1/4 of the black dragon population, but many Half-Human Hybrids that were actually Chaotic Good, as well as their (relatively) innocent full-human mothers. The comics are here and here.

Played straight so far with demons and undead, however — but even then they're allowed to be much more rounded characters than you would normally expect from this trope. In the case of the Big Bad Xykon, the prequel book Start of Darkness portrays him as utterly, irredeemably evil even in life - and still manages to make his lichification look tragic: the process removed his sense of taste, meaning he can never taste a bad cup of coffee again. He proceeds to kill his minions on a whim and send them into certain death, and abuse the ones he doesn't kill, solely because it's the only way for him to feel any joy, or really much of anything, anymore. Most of the other undead we see are his zombified minions, who pretty much just shamble about saying "braaains", unless you count ghosts who act pretty much the same as they were in life. Demons seem to be borderline Anthropomorphic Personifications of their alignment, but even then the most prominent ones we see in the comic, the IFCC, are out to bring an end to the rivalry between the various demonic races and bring them together to fight for the greater evil. (And Sabine, a succubus, may be evil, but she's also portrayed as being in a stable relationship with an also-evil human man.)

Explored in more detail with vampires; a storyline shows how and why they are always evil. When you become a vampire, you magically become Evil by default. However, a certain vampire character who used to be Good seems to be able to control his bloodlust and remain a reasonable person who can cooperate with Good characters. But that's an act on his part, and what really happens when you become a vampire is that you're taken over by an evil spirit formed from your worst moments, so you're not the same person at all. Besides, at least in this case, the spirit is beholden directly to an evil god.

Rats are Always Evil in Freaks N Squeeks. It goes with What Measure Is a Non-Cute? — most of the cast are mice, with the similarly small and cute shrews standing in for Jews.

Cubi, on the other hand — which are not actually demons in the setting — are quite explicitly stated not to be this in the comic itself, despite reputation — the evil ones just get all the press, because torturing or seducing people makes for a more exciting story than helping sick children.

Conversely, angels are not always good, in fact the Demo 101 pages suggest that most of them are just as bad as the majority of demons, they just know how to manipulate public opinion better.

Some of the early humor of Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic depended upon this concept, as the comic has its roots entirely in older editions of D&D. For example, when the beholder Bob cheats on his goblin girlfriend Gren, he tries to justify it by pointing out that he's evil. Gren points out that they're both Lawful Evil, and goes on to cheat on Bob extensively, as is her right as the wronged party under goblin law. Most of the monster characters are so Affably Evil, though, that it sometimes feels jarring when they get around to doing some really bad stuff.

And then subverted later on, either by a deliberate intent to Mind Screw the readers from the very start, or from the author reconsidering, when it turns out that the Urtts are the way they are because they were literally made to be the slaves of the Heroes' people and have inherited the culture of evil and cruelty that the Eregonian goddess destroyed their civilization in order to shock the humans out of it. Now the Eregonians have become good guys in order to atone for their evil heritage, and the Urtts combine that evil heritage with a lingering memory that Humans Are Bastards, even if most of them have forgotten why.

Elves in 8-Bit Theater are all racist, genocidal narcissists whose history has been described as a lovesong to bloodshed and themselves. Their arrogance is also unjustified, as they prove to be no better than other races (for example, having technology on par with other races despite a 9,000 year head start), something that Black Mage and Red Mage tell Thief, the Elven Prince. Their national anthem begins "We're a race of total bastards." An anthem they stole.

The other races aren't much better. 8-Bit Theater is a Crapsack World, after all.

InHarkovast, the Nameless Race cannot speak or think but are described as constantly marching to war. They have yet to do anything other than attack people, and are generally killed without mercy by the story's heroes.

In TwoKinds, due to separatism and the resulting whirlwind of misconception and propaganda, everyone thinks everyone else is Always Chaotic Evil. The Keidran rarely meet Humans other than slavers. Humans rarely meet Keidran who aren't criminals. All it took was one Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds for the slavers to be supplemented with death squads.. The only third party is a group of Brown Minion expies known as the Basitin, who don't see anyone else sympathetically due to their cultural Asskicking Equals Authority / More Than Mind Control; humans are undisciplined rabble, Keidran are perverse undisciplined rabble. And the few Basitin that don't follow that doctrine are hated above all others.

The Shadow Nexus from The Beast Legion are a group of deadly generals each with their own Beast forms, who's sole aim is to create chaos across the land of Lithopia and crush any who oppose the will of their Master, Dragos. In the very second issue, they invade the palace of Lithopia with full force, leaving only destruction in their wake.

In Alice and the Nightmare, the Nightmares/Jabberwocky emerge from the Dream Spring only to kill people. It seems that the only thing they're capable of is violence.

Runewriters has the aberrants, magical monster attack all living creatures that come anywhere near them.

The vampires/aberrations from El Goonish Shive conveniently sidestep any Unfortunate Implications that could be associated with this trope. Every one of them is a former human who willingly chose to become a monster in a bid for eternal life. They have to kill humans to survive, which could potentially be tragic if not for the fact that every one of them chose this, and the process of becoming a vampire destroys all conscience, or capacity for empathy, meaning that even if someone did stupidly decide to become a vampire for good reasons (say to continue pursuing a dangerous enemy past the end of their natural lifetime), they would very quickly lose that good motivation. While the comic's attitude mostly favors mercy, killing a vampire, even in cold blood, is always portrayed as a positive act. Mercy is pointless, as they cannot be redeemed, curing them automatically kills them, and leaving them alive only gives them opportunity to kill again.

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This is frequently subverted in Brotherhood Workshop's Lord of the Rings parodies. The orcs tend to be decent guys on the wrong side of the battlefield, and sometimes have a legitimate beef with the heroes. Though said heroes are no more the wiser and slaughter the orcs anyway, assuming them to be chaotic evil. Aragorn especially takes this to extremes, eventually leading his allies to abandon him after they realize he's just a maniac.

In The Gamer's Alliance, demons are initially shown as intelligent beings who cause suffering because they enjoy it. They used to be a noble race until their god Mardük went mad, which transformed them into their grotesque forms and twisted their minds into serving the destructive aspect of Chaos. However, eventually the heroes meet a few friendly demons and realize that despite their bloodthirsty nature not all demons are irredeemable monsters.

Orion's Arm: worried that the descendants of Earth (humans, artificial intelligences, cyborgs, the genetically engineered, etc) think too much alike due to their creators' inherent bias, a group of AIs created the Bitenic Squids, a highly diverse species with every newborn member being a blank slate. Those that can function in the wider world are all completely selfish and without empathy, and go insane easily.

This trope is comprehensively picked to pieces in The Return where it's revealed that Succubus (Succubi? Succubae? Help me out here people) culture is possibly more complex and multidimensional than human culture, and, from their point of view, it is humanity that borders on Always Chaotic Evil.

While most races and factions in Roll To Dodge: Savral have varying shades of gray, unicorns are depicted as universally evil. Whenever they show up, they're either trolling the players, working for other antagonists, brainwashing scores of innocent civilians or slaughtering them outright. Over the course of the game, they've laid waste to several cities and transformed one of the world's subregions into a barren wasteland. Given that they're creations of the witchgoddessCathy, the unicorns are a justified example.

And then there are the Sarkists, originally started as a revolution against the Daevites by a slave who managed to steal the flesh and power of an ancient supreme being, they are even more brutal and horrific than the Daevites who bore them, nearly wiping out the world with biological warfare in the bronze age. While some isolated groups do teach self sacrifice and honor, modern neo-sarkists are utterly psychotic, caring nothing for anyone else's suffering for their own dark purpose. "Do as you will, to whom you will" being a common proverb among their people.

Tales of MU, Demons and Ogres, as well as mermaids. though not with some other traditional monster races.

The ktuvoks. Their entire society is based on Brainwashing humans who are less advanced than they into obedient slaves, and they are so good at it that if humans are freed from their control, the humans will ally themselves with the ktuvoks willingly. In addition, they attack all free human civilizations, using their slaves as Cannon Fodder, laying everything to waste and committing every war crime in the book. They have no culture or learning to speak of, and merely steal the innovations of other races. And the worst part? The ktuvoks are severely restricted to where on the planet they can live; they cannot survive away from swamps. The only apparently reason apart from the Evulz that they take over much of the continent and turn humans into loyal slaves is to get female ktuvoks to mate with them.'

The ktuvoks brainwashed one particular human race (the Dhekhnami) so thoroughly that they're not so much slaves as symbiotic partners at this point. At least to the Verdurians, they're considered this trope as well.

The Decepticons in The Transformers have a racial divide rather then a political one with Autobots. The Deceptions were built as War machines by the Quintessons, and thus desire both conquest and violence. This leads them into conflict with the peaceful Autobots who were built for domestic tasks.

To say nothing of Dinobot from Beast Wars, as well as Waspinator's defection at the end of the show. It's played straight in Beast Machines, however, with the mindless drone vehicons. There's a scene from the last episode would have given Megatron's two space-launched generals a redemption, but it was cut.

The Quintessons are almost always this. When not evil, they're Ax-Crazy. "Innocent! Throw them to the Sharkticons!" Now, Energon's Alpha Quintesson has more to him than meets the eye, but he's... complicated. And definitely not part of a G1-style Quintesson race.

The spawn of Unicron are almost always every bit as evil as their master. The Minicons from Armada were an exception, though they were created for the sole purpose of giving the Autobots and Decepticons something to fight over.

Both invoked and averted on Gargoyles. All races portrayed onscreen (humans, gargoyles, fae, and New Olympians) are shown to have both good and evil members, but Demona views humanity this way, and the Quarrymen portray gargoyles like this in their recruiting campaigns. Demona herself is one of very few evil gargoyles, the race as a whole is supposedly Always Lawful Good, having a near biological drive to protect and safeguard the places that they live and those places' inhabitants. It is, however, up to the individual gargoyle clans how they choose to interpret these drives, ranging anywhere from "Stay the hell away from my caves, filthy human scum" to "Here I come to save the daaaaay!"

The Irken race, from which Invader Zim hails, is, as far as we know, entirely bent on conquering vast swaths of space. Zim himself may be an exaggeration of the Irken racial personality, but each Invader introduced seems to enjoy large death machines and lots of destructive fire. Unaired episodes would've revealed that they're barely even a real alien race. They're created and controlled by a group of powerful AIs to take over the universe on their behalf.

Futurama has a species of evil leeches, the "Dark Ones". All of the species lived at a single puddle, and yet all their evil was useless against a bag of cement, used to prepare the ground to be turned into a parking lot.

The Changelings from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seem to be this going by their firstappearance in the series, as their queen gloats that ever since she was little, she dreamed of razing Equestria and essentiallyusing ponies as food, but it's averted with their later appearances. One changeling appears in "Slice Of Life" as a wedding guest (Word of God is "Kevin" is a friend of Matilda's and he doesn't do anything even remotely malicious), and the later episode "The Times They Are A-Changeling" introduces Thorax, a reformed changeling who's interested in making friends and learning to share love, befriending Spike and saving his life. When he shows the other changelings later in the season that they can get rid of their Horror Hunger for good by sharing love rather than taking it, the entire hive except for Chrysalis pulls a HeelRace Turn, suggesting that she's the only truly evil changeling and the rest were misguided because of their hunger and Chrysalis' bad leadership - it's implied that she held this knowledge back from her people on purpose to keep them constantly starving and under her control.

The Wendigos, if they are intelligent beings as opposed to animal-level creatures, are this, due to deliberately causing supernatural winters to force societies to destroy themselves with hatred that the Windigos then eat.

The dragons seem like this in their first appearance. The adults would rather roast ponies than talk to them and one tries to kill a young dragon over some eaten property. The teens react to defiance with violence and attack animals for fun. Spike's feral form is easily the nicest dragon shown, only resorting to force, and non-lethal force at that, after being physically injured, and even then he's a rampaging Godzilla-esque monster. Like the changelings it's later subverted in "Gauntlet Of Fire" where they're shown to have leadership and are civilized and intelligent in their own way, and that if they actually were evil they'd likely have wiped the ponies out by now just for kicks.

Averted in Young Justice:Word of God says that the White Martians are not naturally evil in this continuity, and that other than coloration, their differences with the Green and Red Martians are mostly cultural. He doesn't elaborate, though, so it's possible the average White Martian might still have some undesirable traits.

The Shadow Clan from Slugterra. Subverted, in that they are later revealed to be defenders of Slugterra, but also happen to be Good Is Not Nice. Also, the Dark Bane.

Played straight with the Plutarkians from the original 1993 series. Most of the Plutarkians we see are either the Big Bad (Lawrence Limburger), a recurring villain (Napoleon Brie), one of the invaders responsible for bringing Mars to ruin, their vile leader Lord Camembert, and the occasional Plutarkian agent sent to Earth to aid Limburger or compete against him. Even if a Plutarkian isn't a villain, they are still not a pleasant person at all.

Several races in Adventures of the Gummi Bears: the Ogres, the Trolls, the Carpies (vulture-like creatures) and the Troggles (dog-like creatures). Worth notice that Toady, the smarter of the Ogres, does have a Moral Compass and is capable of questioning the evil actions of Igthorn, but is extremely loyal to him. Its possible that Ogres are just to dumb and are manipulated by Igthorn.

The Warthmongers in The Smurfs, the only in-universe totally evil race.

Ghosts in The Real Ghostbusters and its sequel series Extreme Ghostbusters are like this in almost all cases; spirits, demons, goblins and poltergeists (take into account that the term "ghost" is used very broadly in the show and not just for the traditional disembodied soul). Only when they are the spirits of dead people reasoning with them is possible and in most cases the Ghostbusters convince them to move on. Some exceptions do exist like poltergeists Slimer and Buster (they are still chaotic, but not evil).

Trolls in The World of David the Gnome are like this, nor even one is shown not be sadistic and cruel, and most of them (albeit not all) are extremely dumb.

Sorcerer students of Hexley Hall in Sofia the First have all been shown ruthless and sadistic bullies with hopelessly no common sense.

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